Širok Sokak
Широк Сокак
The 'Wide Street' is lined with colorful neoclassical consulates and townhouses. It is Bitola's city living room, where locals spend their days at open-air cafés.
Širok Sokak means 'Wide Street.' It runs about 1 km from Magnolia Square and the clock tower in the north to the Officers' Club and the City Park in the south. In the 19th century under Ottoman rule, Bitola was known as the 'City of Consuls,' with more than ten countries establishing consulates here. They left behind many pastel-yellow and blue neoclassical and baroque facades, with elegant wrought-iron balconies on the second floor. Today the entire street is pedestrianized, and cafés, ice cream shops and bars line it one after another. In the evening residents come out together for a stroll (korzo). It is free and open all day, and it is liveliest in the evening.
Opening hours
All day
Nearby sights
- Officers' Home, Bitola
- Church of St. Demetrius
- Yeni Mosque
- Clock Tower, Bitola
- Ishak Çelebi Mosque
- Old Bazaar & Bezisten
- Heraclea Lyncestis
- Dihovo